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The best royal icing recipe! Perfect for decorating cookies, cakes, cupcakes, & gingerbread houses. Easy to make, pipes smooth, & dries hard.

Royal Icing can turn regular sugar cookies into little works of art! Smooth and shiny, royal icing is simple to make and decorate with too!

Now that you've made a big ole batch of royal icing using my delicious fool-proof royal icing recipe, you are probably looking at it wondering what next? So I created this step by step

That colorful coating might look pretty on your Christmas cookies, but royal icing can be, well, a royal pain. Here are the most common frosting faux pas—and how to avoid them.

Having royal icing woes? It happens! Learn how to easily make royal icing that will look and taste perfect every time!

Of all the types of cookie icing, our thinned royal icing recipe is perfect for covering and decorating cut-out sugar cookies. Also known as flow-in icing or flood icing, this recipe dries icing to a smooth finish. Unlike softer cookie icings, thinned royal icing is durable once it sets, making it ideal for flooding and decorating sugar cookies. This recipe makes for the perfect Christmas cookie icing and is easy enough for bakers of all ages.

The best royal icing recipe! Perfect for decorating cookies, cakes, cupcakes, & gingerbread houses. Easy to make, pipes smooth, & dries hard.

Have you ever experienced instances where dark spots appear in your dried royal icing? You spent hours flooding your cookies to perfection, and BOOM, the next day, you find grease spots all over your decorated cookies? Save yourself the trouble and disappointment and visit the blog to learn how to prevent butter bleed in your royal icing! #howtopreventbutterbleed #royalicing #decoratedcookies